Kani
Board
Columns you name yourself, drag to reorder, and cards that move between them. The view you will keep open all day.
A kanban board that stays on your machine.
No account, no server, no sync.
Free. It opens straight into a board.
Backlog 4
LNCH-012
Rewrite the pricing page in plain language
LNCH-014
Ask five users what they thought was missing
LNCH-018
Decide whether the tour is too long
In progress 2
LNCH-007
Draft the launch note
LNCH-009
Cut the onboarding to four steps
Done 3
LNCH-001
Pick the typeface and stop revisiting it
LNCH-004
Move the timer onto the card itself
LNCH-005
Ship the export button
What's inside
One set of cards, seen four ways.
Most tools make you choose between a board and a calendar and then keep two copies of the truth. Kani keeps one. Every view below is the same cards, arranged differently.
Calendar
Drop a card on a day to reschedule it. Scroll the heading to travel by month or by year. Anything undated waits in a tray instead of disappearing.
Timeline
Every dated card as a bar, packed into lanes that never collide, so a crowded week is obvious before you are standing in it.
Summary
Hours as a heat grid, thirty-day trends, and how much runway is left before the due dates land. This board, or all of them at once.
Cards that carry their weight
Markdown notes written in place with no preview to toggle, an automatic ticket code
(LNCH-014) that never changes, tags, a due date, and a timer.
Command deck
Ctrl K finds any card by title or ticket code, jumps between views and workspaces, or moves a result to another column without leaving the keyboard.
Your data
It never leaves the device.
This is the whole premise, not a setting. Kani has no account system and no server of ours to send anything to, which means there is nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena, and nothing that stops working when a company loses interest.
- Stored in your browser
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Cards, columns, notes, tags and tracked hours live in
localStorage, and card pictures in IndexedDB. Closing the tab changes nothing. - Yours to take out
- Export writes the whole board to a JSON file, import reads it back. That is also how you move to another machine — deliberately, when you decide to.
- Works with the network off
- There is no loading state, because there is nothing to load. The board is already on your disk.
- What we do measure
- Anonymous page and feature analytics, plus ads on the free tier — never the contents of a card. In Europe nothing loads until you say yes.
Pricing
Free forever. Paying is for the extras.
Nothing is ever locked behind a payment that you have already written down. Your cards stay readable, exportable and yours on every tier — what you buy is more room and a quieter screen.
Free
$0
- Board and calendar views
- Two workspaces
- Notes, tags, due dates and timers
- Command deck and filters
- Export and import, always
- Ads, kept out of the work grid
Supporter
Pay what you want
- No ads, anywhere
- Timeline and summary views
- Five workspaces, in your own colours
- Pictures and steps on cards
And a way to make everything except the thing you are doing go quiet.
Plus
$10 once, forever
- Everything in Supporter
- Unlimited workspaces
- Archive, column limits and card templates
- Auto-backup to a folder you choose
- The summary goes deeper — cycle time, effort, rhythm
And a desk lamp. It only ever comes on here.
There is nothing to sign up for.
Open it, name a board, and start. If you do not like it, close the tab — you have not given anyone anything.